Climacophobia Counselling Wolverhampton

Climacophobia is the Fear of Climbing and may appear to be a completely rational fear at first thought.

All phobias, regardless of what the feared object or circumstances are, cause Anxiety and Stress for the sufferer.

Whilst the feared object or situation may seem, to other people, to be ridiculous or silly, the person who suffers from the phobia knows only too well that the Anxiety that they experience is real enough.

We completely understand this here at TranceForm Psychotherapy and will treat you and your Climacophobia seriously.

For many years Psychologists have been aware that our minds are more than capable of producing a real biological reaction to any given situation and so as long as the phobic person “believes” that the object or situation they fear represents danger to them, then they will experience real fear.

The majority of people who do suffer with Climacophobia understand that their fear is “irrational” but continue to experience it regardless of this knowledge. This is why simply being told to “snap out of it” rarely produces a solution!

Symptoms of Climacophobia

The symptoms of Climacophobia are very similar to other specific phobias and will often include:

Feelings of Panic, Dread or Terror

Inability to Relax

An Impending Sense of Dread

Problems Concentrating

Being quick tempered

Feelings of dizziness

Difficulties in becoming motivated

Prickly sensations like pins and needles

Palpitations

Aches & Pains

Fatigued Muscles

Dry and Sticky mouth

Sweating Excessively

Breathlessness

Migraines and Headaches

Poor Quality of Sleep

Climacophobia Symptoms are generally automatic and uncontrollable and can seem to take over a person’s thoughts which frequently leads to extreme measures being taken to avoid the feared object or situation, what are known as “Safety” or “Avoidance” behaviours.

Unfortunately, for the sufferer, these safety behaviours have a paradoxical effect and actually reinforce the phobia rather than solve it!

Climacophobia may be the result of negative emotional experiences that can be either directly or indirectly linked to the object or situational fear.

Over time, the symptoms often become “normalised” and “accepted” as a limiting belief in that person’s life – “I’ve learnt to live with it.”

In just as many cases, Climacophobia may have become worse over time as more and more sophisticated safety behaviours and routines are developed.

The good news is that the vast majority of people who suffer from Climacophobia will find a course of Psychotherapy helps enormously.

Almost every phobia responds well to psychological interventions.

Treatment for Climacophobia

TranceForm is able to offer two distinct forms of Psychotherapy for treating Climacophobia, “Directive” therapy and “Psychodynamic” therapy. The main difference between these two Therapeutic models lies in the way they approach the problem.

Directive Therapies such as Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) and the Thrive Programme tend to regard the symptoms of Climacophobia as existing very much in the present moment and consider that the past experiences of the sufferer should largely be disregarded as playing little part in the problem today. These types of therapy place a low emphasis on the dynamic processes that exist between the Therapist and the Client and see the methodology itself as being the main solution.

Psycho-Dynamic Therapies such as Psychoanalysis and Schema Therapy are fundamentally different to the Directive approaches as they consider that events and influences experienced in the earlier formative lives of the person can cause, or at least “pre-dispose”, a person to suffer in a specific way in later life. The aim of psycho-dynamic therapy is to help a person to understand and resolve these causative issues following the doctrine of “cause and effect”. In these types of Therapy, the relationship between the therapist and client is considered as an important factor in the solution to the problems.

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